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School’s In
Brian Guest, a senior engineering assistant at WHOI, dipped his fisheye lens (fittingly) off the WHOI dock to capture this image of juvenile Atlantic menhaden schooling in late September waters.…
Read MoreCable Guy
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Bennett Spencer Lambert attaches a power and data cable that connects instruments on the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory with the scientists on the mainland. Instruments at…
Read MoreDeep Diver
WHOI research specialist Mark Dennett (right) helps guide a REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) into Great Harbor in Woods Hole for testing in July. Dennett and a team from…
Read MoreOcean Health
WHOI chemist Mak Saito, left, and researcher Matt McIlvin show off mass spectrometers that are key instruments in their efforts to apply an emerging biomedical technique—proteomics—to learn about the ocean.…
Read MorePass the Oysters
Woods Hole Sea Grant/Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Agents Joshua Reitsma and Abigail Archer help distribute bags of shell that contain oyster seed, also known as spat, to towns for municipal…
Read MoreIs Ocean Acidification Affecting Squid?
By Daniel Cojanu, Elise Hugus :: Originally published online September 26, 2014
Read MoreSummer Visitor
Like many on Cape Cod, WHOI has its share of summer visitors. This August, the Institution played host to the newly built ice-capabale research vessel Sikuliaq. The NSF-funded ship was…
Read MoreQuadPod: Underwater Detective
Peter Traykovski and Jay Sisson take a moment to pose with a “QuadPod” on the WHOI dock before deploying it off the south side of Martha’s Vineyard. For the next…
Read MoreDeep-sea Iron Man
An expedition near Crete is using this high-tech Exosuit to search a famous shipwreck once visited by Jacques Cousteau. Its design allows divers to make longer, deeper and longer trips…
Read MoreLocal Lessons, Global Impacts
WHOI scientists (left to right) Glen Gawarkiewicz, Scott Doney, Jeff Donnelly and Dan McCorkle are partnering with local groups to help improve the ability of the general public make informed decisions about climate…
Read MoreOcean Snapshot
A group gathered on the stern of R/V Chain during a thermistor chain deployment in 1958. Although this sensor array is often called a “chain,” it is actually a flexible…
Read MoreA Moment to Celebrate
U.S. Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass., (back row, center) wishes the submersible Alvin a happy 50th birthday while holding a t-shirt commemorating the occasion during a recent visit to WHOI. Markey…
Read MoreReal-time for the First Time
Before the advent of computers, researchers had to sift through data by hand. In 1962, scientist Carl Bowin installed the first computer on a WHOI ship, an IBM “1620” to analyze…
Read MoreSeen in Woods Hole
Student artwork celebrating Alvin’s 50th year decorated a utility pole in Woods Hole this summer. From 2011 to early 2014, a dedicated group of people worked to completely rebuild the…
Read MoreGoing With the Flow
RAFOS floats await deployment to the Iceland Sea aboard the R/V Hakon Mosby, operated by the Institute for Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway. This July, WHOI’s Marieke Femke de Jong and…
Read MoreIn the Shadow of the Winch
Research asssociate Carolina Nobre snapped this shot from the bridge of R/V Knorr during one of three O-SNAP cruises to the North Atlantic this summer. The Overturning in the Subpolar…
Read MoreNew Dimensions
WHOI senior engineer Lee Frey of the Oceanographic Systems Laboratory helps test a new multibeam sensor mounted to the underside of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can scan and…
Read MoreThe Big (Winter) Chill
MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Alexis Fischer and Isabela Le Bras braved the January cold to conduct sediment cores in search of the plankton Alexandrium fundyense at Nauset Marsh in Orleans,…
Read MoreWatery Wi-fi
Post-doctoral investigator Mike Brosnahan worked from a raft that supported an Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) on a frigid March day in Nauset Marsh in Orleans, Mass. The IFCB continuously records microscope…
Read MoreSpecial Visit
It’s not every day that a new ice-strengthened ship visits Woods Hole. In August, R/V Sikuliaq, a ship capable of breaking ice up to 2.5 feet thick, spent several weeks at WHOI before…
Read MoreLook Behind You
A REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle picked up an unexpected follower during a 2013 expedition near Guadalupe Island off the northwest coast of Mexico. The vehicle was equipped with a…
Read MoreThe Exosuit at a Glance
Illustration courtesy of Nuytco Research Interactive by Eric S. Taylor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Read MoreSharp Lookout
Bright sun and shadows from clouds and choppy waves can make spotting marine mammals difficult on a research ship at sea. Here, Dr. Ajith Kumar, of the National Centre for Biological…
Read MoreCatching Fallen Plankton
MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Alice Alpert and Alexis Fischer retrieved sediment traps recently from Nauset Marsh in Orleans, Mass. Fischer, a biology student, is studying harmful algal blooms produced annually…
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